Gene sends Rosie, a graduate student in his department, to Don as a joke, a ringer for the Wife Project.
Don is a cad, a philanderer who chooses women based on nationality-he aims to sleep with a woman from every country. Gene brought Don as a postdoc to the prestigious university where he is now an associate professor. Don's best friends are Gene and Claudia, psychologists. He cannot understand social cues, barely feels emotion and can't stand to be touched. While he makes this observation near the end of the book, it comes as no surprise-this story plays the rom-com card from the first sentence. But it was real." So Don Tillman, our perfectly imperfect narrator and protagonist, tells us. I had been living in the world of romantic comedy and this was the final scene. The book won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. * Starred Review */ Polished debut fiction, from Australian author Simsion, about a brilliant but emotionally challenged geneticist who develops a questionnaire to screen potential mates but finds love instead. Movie rights have been optioned by Fox Searchlight with Ellen DeGeneris to produce. Graeme's fourth novel, Two Steps Forward is a story of renewal set on the Camino de Santiago, written with his wife, Anne Buist, whose own books include Medea's Curse, Dangerous to Know and This I Would Kill For. Movie rights have been optioned by Vocab Films / New Sparta Films with Toni Collette attached to direct. Graeme's third novel was The Best of Adam Sharp, a story of a love affair re-kindled - and its consequences. The sequels, The Rosie Effect, and The Rosie Result, were also bestsellers, with total sales of the series in excess of five million. Movie rights have been optioned to Sony Pictures. His first novel, The Rosie Project, was published in 2013 and translation rights have been sold in forty languages. Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant and the author of two nonfiction books on database design who decided, at the age of fifty, to turn his hand to fiction.
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